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IX. 



MOK OF MUNSTEE AND THE TEAGIC FATE OF CUANU 

 SON OF CAILCHIK 



Edited by T. P. O'NOLAN, M.A. 



Read Feekuaky 26. Published August 15, 1912. 



The- following text, now for the first time published, is drawn from the Book 

 of Leinster, T.C.D., and facsimile copy, E.I.A., fo. 274a ; Book of Fermoy, 

 fo. 17a E.I.A. ; and H. 2.15, p. 69, a fourteenth-century MS., T.C.D, I have 

 for convenience divided the text into numbered sections. 



I have followed mainly the reading of LL (L), except where that rather 

 carelessly written manuscript is obviously wrong. The variants from the Book 

 of Fermoy (F) and from H. 2. 15 (H) are given in the foot-notes. The latter 

 MS. is later than L and F. It is closer in grammatical forms and in 

 phraseology to F than to L. In §§ 5 and 6 its versions of the poetry are so 

 distinct from those of L and F, that I give them in their entirety in the 

 Addendum. 



The term " foreign or outlander tribes,"' applied by L in § 8 to the men 

 of Ossory, Decies, Ely, Muskerry Bregoin, East Femin, and Fermoy, is not a 

 little interesting to the future historian of Ireland. I subjoin to the end 

 of the Glossarial Index, which gives rare words, a list of persons and places 

 mentioned in the text, as well as a table of the succession of the kings of 

 Munster from Aeugus mac Nadfraoich to Cathal mac Finnguine. This latter 

 king has been confused by the scribes with Cathal macAedha, the brother 

 or first cousin of Fingin niac Aedha Duib. For my reasons for ascribing a 

 historical blunder to the scribes see the list of succession of Munster kings 

 as well as the table of historical references to the personages mentioned in 

 the text. These references I have found in — 



AT. Annals of Tighearnach, Stokes, Eevue Celtique, vol. xvii. 



AU. Annals of Ulster. 



CS. Clu'onicon Scotorum. 



IF. Three Fragments of Annals. 



KFF, Keating : Foras Feasa ar Eirinn, Irish Texts Soc. 



AI. Annals of Innisfallen, ) 



_,,, , , i. , , T^ nT J. 1 as quoted by Stokes, E.C. xvu. 



FM. Annals of the Four Masters, ) ^ •^ 



Eriu. Anecdota from Ir. MSS. 



1 See text edited by W. A. Craigie, Rev. Celt., xx, pp. 335, s.q. 



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